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When Sydney Brown arrived at ºÚÁÏÍø as a first-year student from Avon, Ohio, she didn't wait to get started. She walked into the TV2 newsroom — now Kent Stater TV — and introduced herself. That instinct to show up, dive in, and tell stories has defined every semester since.Now a senior wrapping up her journalism degree in the College of Communication and Information's School of Media and Journalism, Brown has been named a 2026 Gracie Award recipient in the On-Air Talent category for TV students — recognition from Alliance for Women in Media that honors outstanding broadcasters f...

Every year, drug-resistant bacteria kill hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In the United States alone, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus — better known as MRSA — sends hundreds of thousands of patients to the hospital and claims tens of thousands of lives. Conventional antibiotics, once the reliable frontline of defense, are losing ground. Bacteria evolve. Drugs fail. The gap between what medicine can offer and what patients need keeps widening.Inside two ºÚÁÏÍø laboratories, a biologist and a chemist have spent years trying to close that gap.Dr. Min-Ho Kim, a...

The Ohio Senate voted unanimously on March 25 to designate a stretch of Interstate 480 in Cuyahoga County as the Officer Jacob J. Derbin Memorial Highway, honoring the Euclid police officer who was killed in the line of duty in May 2024. Senate Bill 334, introduced by State Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-District 18), passed 32-0. The bill designates the east and westbound lanes of I-480 between Lancaster Drive and I-77 as the memorial highway. It now moves to the Ohio House of Representatives for consideration.Derbin, 23, of Brooklyn Heights, was fatally shot on May 11, 2024, while responding to a...

ºÚÁÏÍø and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics are proud to announce the establishment of the Dr. Curtis Stone Memorial Track and Field Fund, a scholarship created through a $750,000 gift from Sara Stone Miller, '77, M.M. '79, Ph.D. '85, and her late husband, Terry Ellis Miller, Ph.D. The fund honors the legacy of Sara's father, Curtis Charles Stone, D.Ed, a three-time Olympian, World War II veteran and educator.Curtis, who served on Kent State's faculty from 1963 to 1985, was one of America's premier long-distance runners in the 1940s and 1950s. He represented the Unite...